Claremont

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Traveler South Island Odyssey
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- Jun 11, 2024, 2:08 PM
- ☀️ 11 °C
- Altitude: 224 m
- New Zealand Canterbury Timaru District Claremont -44.401437, 171.08880644°24’5” S 171°5’20” E
Day 65–66
Castle Claremont
June 11 in New Zealand ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
If it's not the scenery wowing us, it's the architecture or even both. I feel we owe a debt of gratitude to those who went before us and built places of residence or schools or whatever and we now get to enjoy them and their way of living that is so foreign to us.
Tonight we're staying at Castle Claremont which was originally built as a residence and was eventually purchased by the Marist Brothers as a training institution for would be Priests and Brothers.
It's now owned by 1 man who is retired and enjoys his days pottering around with occasional help, parking guests like us and if he has to, the odd wedding.
We enjoyed our drive through the mid canterbury countryside and couldn't believe our eyes when we arrived!
Tomorrow probably Fairlie.Read more
Traveler Beautiful!!
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Traveler It's so good eh! The house, the service and the generosity of the owner. We're lucky to have the experience. Xx
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Traveler We're currently reading the book, written in 1947, on the history of the house and the general area. The owner loaned it to us and we just "leave it on the front porch when we leave" along with our overnight fee! Talk about trusting!
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Traveler So good.
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Traveler It's fabulous. Really lovely.
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Traveler Our Adventure
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- Feb 11, 2022, 3:38 PM
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 221 m
- New Zealand Canterbury Timaru District Claremont -44.400783, 171.08915844°24’3” S 171°5’21” E
Day 119–122
Timaru
February 11, 2022 in New Zealand ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
At Castle Claremont. Great place to stay, had a guided tour of the castle by Robert Young, the owner. $5pp/pn. Wedding party had photos taken.
Made of solid granite, built in 1884 and took 3 yrs to build with stone masons brought in from England specifically. Built by pioneer George Rhodes for his new wife. Later homebto Lord Ranfurly, former Governor of NZ? Later owned by the Catholic Church who added on a wing, for an order of silent order of monks. They were fully self sufficient and even built their own chapel. Castle has 14 bedrooms.Read more
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